The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.
DOROTHEA LANGEThe visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.
More Dorothea Lange Quotes
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A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.
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Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.
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Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don’t realize it.
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No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind.
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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.
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That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects. So that no one would say, how did you do it, where did you find it, but they would say that such things could be.
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